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This woman wants you to get paid for your streaming media data

Angela Benton’s Streamlytics launched its Clture product to create a market between your Netflix and Spotify usage and businesses who’ll pay for it.

This woman wants you to get paid for your streaming media data

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Mozilla’s Katharina Borchert is giving voice to the internet

Common Voice is bringing tens of thousands of new vocal recordings to voice-recognition developers.

Mozilla’s Katharina Borchert is giving voice to the internet

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This Amazon exec figured out a way for customers to use cash

For enabling Americans without a debit or credit card to shop on Amazon, Ben Volk is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business for 2020.

This Amazon exec figured out a way for customers to use cash

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This guy wants you to have a say in what happens to your DNA

LunaDNA’s Bob Kain has created a novel, fairer alternative model for genetic research in which its contributors get a voice.

This guy wants you to have a say in what happens to your DNA

Zuck, Bezos, Cook: Who takes the fall in D.C.’s antitrust games?

Last week’s hearing was more circus than bread, but America’s tech titans have reason to worry. Somebody is going down. The only question is who—and when.

Zuck, Bezos, Cook: Who takes the fall in D.C.’s antitrust games?

This AI fact-checking startup is doing what Facebook and Twitter won’t

After deploying in the U.K. and India, Logically is launching a browser extension and app in the United States with a goal of beating back the overwhelming tide of misinformation before the November election.

This AI fact-checking startup is doing what Facebook and Twitter won’t

How COVID-19 killed America’s favorite diet

After years of saying saying no to carbs, the pandemic led us to start gorging on bread and sweets. “Food is pleasure and there is little pleasure these days,” says one expert.

How COVID-19 killed America’s favorite diet

How food delivery upstarts are fighting the tyranny of Grubhub

As restaurants turn to food delivery en masse amid the COVID-19 pandemic, smaller startups are rising up to challenge Big Food Delivery’s supremacy.

How food delivery upstarts are fighting the tyranny of Grubhub

That guy yelling during the antitrust hearing this week? Google funds him

In the antitrust hearing this week, Rep. Jim Jordan hectored Google CEO Sundar Pichai about rigging search results to help Democrats and hurt conservatives. Who would have known that Jordan is Pichai’s beneficiary?

That guy yelling during the antitrust hearing this week? Google funds him

There is nowhere to hide from trauma when you’re a Black person on the internet

In 2020, it’s become impossible for me to go online without experiencing pain and sadness.

There is nowhere to hide from trauma when you’re a Black person on the internet

What private browsing does—and doesn’t—do to shield you from prying eyes online

Private browsing sounds like it’s keeping all your browsing and data private—but its name is misleading.

What private browsing does—and doesn’t—do to shield you from prying eyes online

This clever COVID-19 testing technique could help send kids back to school safely

Companies are now developing pooled testing as a way of detecting coronavirus’s presence in a community earlier.

This clever COVID-19 testing technique could help send kids back to school safely

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I’m a Latina veteran who works at Amazon. Diversity isn’t about checking a box

It’s vital to design products that work for everyone—and for ensuring businesses’ survival.

I’m a Latina veteran who works at Amazon. Diversity isn’t about checking a box

Congress just signaled that the era of Big Tech acquisitions is over

For decades, tech giants have swallowed up startups with minimal government interference. This week’s antitrust hearings suggest that could change.

Congress just signaled that the era of Big Tech acquisitions is over

How the world’s laziest to-do list helped me finally get organized

No special apps required: just your phone and your mouth.

How the world’s laziest to-do list helped me finally get organized

At Ford factories, Boston Dynamics’s robot dog Spot is teaming up with a new robotic friend

Through its new robotic collaborations, the infamously creepy dog-shaped robots could soon ride on wheels and launch their own drones.

At Ford factories, Boston Dynamics’s robot dog Spot is teaming up with a new robotic friend

Is the explosion of COVID-19 conspiracies changing people’s real-world behavior?

More than 20 million people saw a video filled with lies about COVID-19. Researchers still don’t know how this kind of viral misinformation is impacting people’s willingness to wear masks—or to get an eventual vaccine.

Is the explosion of COVID-19 conspiracies changing people’s real-world behavior?

Even amid COVID-19, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is ready for takeoff

Building a Mars rover is already hard. Building one during a pandemic is even harder.

Even amid COVID-19, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is ready for takeoff

Microbusinesses could be the key to surviving the COVID-19 recession

Communities with lots of small, informal enterprises might be more resilient, according to a study from the web-hosting platform GoDaddy.

Microbusinesses could be the key to surviving the COVID-19 recession

Impact

The fertilizer that might have caused the Beirut explosion is all over the US. It’s unevenly regulated

How the media is preparing for an election night that could go on for weeks

The COVID-19 drug remdesivir costs as much as $3,120 per patient, but the government could change that

Creativity

This new Apple ad is epic vertical cinema by Oscar winner Damien Chazelle

Seth Rogen’s ‘An American Pickle’ is the first movie that understands how I feel about seltzer

The fan’s guide to Verzuz’s Rick Ross vs. 2 Chainz: Everything you need to know

Co.Design

This John Legend-backed startup uses AI to improve your credit—for free

Google’s new phone case is beautiful—and it’s made out of water bottles

People of color are wildly underrepresented in design. This game hopes to help fix it

Work Life

How a startup’s first big customer can make or break success

6 secrets to getting hired during an economic downturn

How to lead a team when the path forward is increasingly unclear